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Z P R AVODAJ S TŘE DIS K A VE X ILOLOG ICK ÝCH INFOR M ACÍ
THE BU LLE TIN OF THE FLAG DATA CE NTR E
TOTO Č ÍSLO
JE VĚNOVANÉ
XIX. MEZINÁ RODNÍMU
VEXILOLOGICKÉ MU
KONGRESU
Po dvou letech se opě t koná
mezinárodní vexilologický kongres.
Letos – poté, co minulé kongresy se
konaly ve Victorii (Britská Kolumbie,
Kanada) a předtím v Kapském
Mě stě (Již níAfrika) – se jeho konání
vrátilo do Evropy.
Ve dnech 23.7. – 27.7. 2001
se sejdou vexilologové z celého
svě ta
na
tý denní
setkání
v severoanglickém mě stě York.
REGIONÁ LNÍSYMBOLY
V Č ESKÉ REPUBLICE
Na základě zákona č. 347/97
Sb.
bylo
zavedeno
v Č eské
republice krajské zřízení, tvořené
třinácti
kraji.
Podle
zákona
č.129/2000 Sb. o krajích mají kraje
právo použ ívat své symboly. Vlajky
krajů jsou tvořeny přímý m přepisem
znaku na list vlajky. Jedná se tedy o
heraldické vlajky. Pomě r šířky
k délce praporu je 2:3. V současné
době jsou symboly udě leny třem
krajům a ve třech krajích jsou
symboly schváleny zastupitelstvem
kraje.
VEXILOLOGIE
V Č ESKÉ REPUBLICE
Č lánek
popisuje
rozvoj
vexilologie v Č eské republice po
roce 1990. Zabý vá se čiností
podvý boru pro heraldiku a vexilologii
a způsobem přijímání nový ch
obecních praporů v Č R.
VLAJKY Č ESKÝCH
VEXILOLOGICKÝCH
ORGANIZACÍ
V článku jsou popsány vlajky
Vexilologického klubu, Střediska
vexilologický ch
informací
a
Regionálního střediska vexilologie a
heraldiky.
*
Č lánky a popisy praporů krajů do
angličtiny přelož ili Jaroslav Martykán
a Jan Zrzavý
če rve ne c- s
rpe n2001
J uly - Aug us
t2001
RE G IO N A L S Y M B O LS O F TH E CZE CH RE PU B LIC
According to the law No: 347/97 Sb., regional administration of the Czech Republic has been
recently established. First elections to the regional assemblies were held in autumn 2000 already. New
administrative division of Czechia consists of 13 regions (“ kraj” ) while capital city of Prague has
retained its special status, too. With accordance to the Regional Act No: 129/2000 Sb., new
administrative units are authorized to display their symbols. The Subcommittee for Heraldry and
Vexillology attached to the House of Deputies (Parliament) recommended creating regional symbols
in the unified form. The arms are quartered with full arms of the related historical land (i.e. Bohemia,
Moravia, and Silesia) in the first quarter, while the second one is charged with the arms (or their
derivate) of the administrative center of the region. A specific symbol characteristic for the said region
is placed in the third quarter, while the last quarter is reserved either for another typical regional
symbol or for the arms of another historical land where lesser part of the region spreads, if so.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech Vexollological Pages
http://web.uhk.cz/cvp/kraje/symbkraj.htm
The flags are of a heraldic type, i.e. the quarters of shield are substituted with those of flag’s
surface. The obliged width to length ratio is 2:3.
Symbols of the region are usually chosen in a public competition organized in particular
regions or designed by a group of experts nominated by the regional authorities, respectively. In some
cases the regional authority addressed a renowned heraldist directly.
The new symbol design is to be discussed in the Regional Council and consequently approved
by the Regional Assembly. Later on, head of the region (named sheriff or “ hejtman” in Czech) will
ask the Speaker of the House of Deputies to grant the new symbol. The design is passed to the
Subcommittee for Heraldry and Vexillology in order to judge of its professional correctness from the
heraldic and vexillological point of view; the subcommittee would set official blazoning of both arms
and flag. The superior Parliamentary Committee for Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Physical
Culture will proceed the approved design of new symbols to the Speaker of the House of Deputies and
it will recommend him to grant them officially by his resolution. Afterwards, a solemn ceremony will
take place in the Parliament when the Speaker hands over an official letter (or privilege) describing
both symbols to the representatives of the region.
There have been symbols already granted to three regions and the symbols of further three
regions wait for their sanction by the Parliament.
Petr Exner
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OLOMOUC
OLO
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist field is blue with a red-white checkered
eagle with yellow crown, beak, and legs. The upper fly field is yellow with a black eagle
with yellow crown, red beak and red legs, with a white perisonium with a central cross
and two terminal trefoil. The lower hoist field is yellow with a blue wavy diagonal stripe
("descending"). The lower fly field is blue with yellow letters S, P, Q, and O (SP above
QO).
Symbols were officially inaugurated by the Speaker of the House of Deputies
on 27.6.2001.
KARLOVY VARY
KAV
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist field is red with a white double-tailed lion
with yellow crown, tongue and claws. The upper fly field is blue with a yellow fountain
with white jetting water. The lower hoist field is blue with two crossed miners' hammers
(white with yellow shafts) and with yellow crossed twigs below the hammers. The lower
fly field is red with a white double-tailed lion (with yellow crown, tongue, and claws)
emerging from three white wavy stripes.
Symbols were officially inaugurated by the Speaker of the House of Deputies
on 27.6.2001.
PARDUBICE
PAR
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist field is red with a white double-tailed lion
with yellow crown, tongue, and claws. The upper fly field is blue with a red-white
checkered eagle with yellow crown, beak, and legs. The lower hoist field is blue with a
white ashlar wall with three "teeth" and with a gate (within the gate, there is a yellow
globe, the gate's voussoir with a black lyre). The lower fly field is red with a fore half of
the white jumping horse with yellow hoofs and bridle.
Symbols were officially inaugurated by the Speaker of the House of Deputies
on 27.6.2001.
LIBEREC
LIB
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist and lower fly fields are red with a white
double-tailed lion with yellow crown, tongue and claws. The upper fly field is blue with a
white felly wheel of the Redern family from the Liberec municipal arms. A white concave
apex in the blue lower hoist field symbolizes mount of Ještě d.
The Regional Assembly of Liberec approved the symbols on 22.5.2001.
PLZEŇ
PLZ
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist field is red with a white double-tailed lion
with yellow crown, tongue and claws. The upper fly field is green with four white stripes
representing rivers of Mž e, Radbuza, Ú hlava and Ú slava. A yellow stripe across a green
lower hoist field represents gold-bearing river of Otava. A rotund in the lower fly field
recalls the Romanesque rotund from the town of Starý Plzenec.
The Regional Assembly of Plzeň approved both symbols on 29.5.2001.
HRADEC KRÁ LOVÉ
KRH
The flag is quartered. The upper hoist and lower fly field are red with a white
double-tailed lion with yellow crown, tongue and claws. The upper fly field is blue with a
yellow capital Gothic letter G from the second medieval arms of the city. The lower hoist
field of a blue color is charged with a yellow crown of Bohemian queens.
The Regional Assembly of Hradec Králové approved arms and flag on
12.6.2001.
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VE XILLO LO G Y IN TH E CZE CH RE PU B LIC
The Czech Republic is witnessing a real
vexillological boom nowadays. Since 4.9.1990 when the
Communities Act No: 367/1990 Sb. was approved by the
Czech Parliament, more than 1500 new municipal and civic
flags have been hoisted in Czechia. As the Speaker of the
House of Deputies is the only person authorized to grand
new arms and flag to any city, town or borough, but also to
smaller communities like villages and township villages, the
Parliament had to establish a special body for execution of
this privilege. Therefore, a special Heraldic Commission (or
later Subcommittee) was established in spring 1991 in order
not to create any new symbols, but to consult and to approve
designs presented by the related communities. Every project
of a new coat-of-arms and/or flag is discussed in complex
from the point of view of both heraldry and vexillology
before his approval for granting. There are four members of
the Vexillological Club Board (Svoboda, Brožek, Fojtík, and
Exner) participating in the activities of this expert body,
name of which was changed to the Subcommittee for
Heraldry and Vexillology on 8.11.2000.
They set the unified criteria for approbation of the
municipal and civic flags valid in Czechia for almost ten
years already. Supported by wide experience of these leading
Czech vexillologists and collected during general inventory
of municipal flags organized by the Vexillological Club in
1978 and 1980, the above mentioned criteria were widely
accepted by both heraldists and MPs who are also members
of the Subcommittee; the criteria were practically applied
during its existence. Thanks to them, new flags adopted in
the Czech Republic during last ten years prove a high
aesthetic and artistic quality in their majority.
The Flag Data Centre deserves high credit for its
decision to publish gradually a complete survey of all
municipal and civic flags adopted since 1991 in its
Vexillological Lexicon.
Jaroslav Martykán
VEXILLOLOGICAL
CLUB (Prague)
The
Clubś
flag
consists of a red field (2:3)
charged with a white triangle
extending to the fly. Another
blue triangle is laid on the
white one. Its top extends to
the half of the length of the
flag. Author of the flag is
PhDr.Zbyšek Svoboda
FLAG DATA CENTRE
(Hradec Krá lové )
The flag of the FDC is
blue with three V-shape fields
in colours of the town of
Hradec Králové. The symbol
was designed by Petr Exner.
REGIONAL CENTRE
FOR VEXILLOLOGY AND
HERALDRY (Jitkov, okr. HB)
CZECH VEXILLOLOGICAL PAGES
http://web.uhk.cz/cvp
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The flag of RCVH
consists from white and green
horizontal stripes and blackyellow canton. The symbol was
designed by Milan Tý ma.
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